Cost Pricing

This section explains how to do cost pricing in ITBA.

If you activate the CSA - ITBA integration, the price information is coming from the CSA subscription. ITBA pulls the subscription billing information including billing price and options using the CSA integration.

If you activate the AWS or Azure integrations, the cost information is provided by AWS or Azure.

For private cloud cost calculation, activate the CO - ITBA integration. You can then manually specify pricing information within the PRICING_MODEL.csv located in $HPBA_Home/ContentPacks/CO/EXTERNAL. The last column provides the unit price. ITBA pulls the VM resource usage information such as Number of Consumed CPU per Day, Number of Consumed Memory (GB) per Day, Number of Consumed Disk Space (GB) per Day using the CO integration.

Since ITBA doesn’t have a pricing module, the easiest way to calculate the cost of each VM resource is to use the ITBA-provided one-time spreadsheet, which allows you to input the price for each VM resource usage. ITBA will then run ETL jobs to calculate the cost based on the real usage.

Billing information is displayed in:

• The Showback and Showback Detail reports. For details, see CSA-Showback for Cloud Services Page, CSA-Showback Detail for Cloud Services Page, CSA-Showback for Consumer Page, and CSA-Showback Detail for Consumer Page.
• The Total Revenue of Services KPI. The total revenue of services provided by IT during the measurement period.
• The Total Expense for Services KPI. The total expense of services consumed by the organization.
• The Average Expense for Services KPI. The average expense of services consumed by the organization.
• The Average Revenue of Services KPI. The average revenue of services provided by IT during the measurement period.
• The Service Profit Margin KPI. The profit margin of the services provided by IT during the measurement period.

Cost information is displayed in:

• The resource usage and utilization reports. For details, see CSA-Resource Usage and Utilization for Consumer Page and CSA-Resource Usage and Utilization for Resource Supplier Manager Page
• The Total Cost of Resource Providers KPI. The total cost of the Resource Providers during the measurement period.
• The Public vs Private Cloud Spending KPI. The ratio between the public and the private spending.
• The Average Cost of Resource Providers KPI. The average cost of the Resource Providers during the measurement period.
• The Average Cost of IT Services KPI.. The average cost of services provided by IT.
• The Total Cost of IT Services KPI. The total cost of services provided by IT during the measurement period.
• The Service Profit Margin KPI. The profit margin of the services provided by IT during the measurement period.